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Bullying Compromises Targets' Health and Safety
It's a Public Health Hazard
It's a Public Health Hazard
The reason for the movement itself is because of bullying's impact on human workers!
WBI research illustrates that individuals are targeted primarily because they pose a perceived threat to the bully. Characteristics of the typical Target (WBI 2000 study):
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(1) independent, refuses to act subserviently,
(2) is more technically skilled than the bully,
(3) is better liked, has emotional inteligence and social skills, and
(4) has the honesty and ethics of a whistleblower.
Targets are non-confrontive. They do not respond to aggression with aggression. (They are thus morally superior.) But the price paid for apparent submissiveness is that the bully can act with impunity (as long as the employer also does nothing).
According to the 2007 WBI-Zogby Survey, 45% of targeted individuals suffer stress-related health problems. And additional findings regarding targets' health can be found in WBI research and the PTSD-related research by others posted at this site.
Stress-Related Physical Health Complications
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- Cardiovascular problems: hypertension to strokes, heart attacks
- Adverse Neurological changes: neurotransmitter disruption, hippocampus shrinkage
- Immunilogical impairment: more frequent infections of greater severity
- Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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- Debilitating Anxiety, Panic Attacks (>80%)
- Clinical Depression: new to person or exacerbated condition previously controlled (39%)
- Post-traumatic Stress (PTSD) from deliberate human-inflicted abuse (30% of targeted women; 21% of men)
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- Lost ability to be left alone to do the once-"loved job"
- Forced to transfer from loved job, often a punitive transfer (13%)
- Constructively discharged without reasonable cause (24%)
- Target quits to reverse decline in health and sanity (40%)
Be sure to read the research that explores the link between bullying and PTSD, stress, life-shortening and other phenomena.